Downtown Lawrence’s nearly 15 years without a pharmacy and drugstore ended a couple of weeks ago.
Already, you are starting to see downtown Lawrence change in small ways. One such small (but not trivial) way: toilet paper.
On Friday, while I was at the newly opened Sigler Medical Arts Pharmacy — located in the old Capitol Federal bank branch at 10th and Vermont streets — there was a man there who had ...
You know what they say about a kid in a candy store.
He’ll either bounce off the wall or stick to it. (On second thought, maybe that is just what they said about me, and why we didn’t often stop at one.)
No, the more conventional saying has something to do with all the joy and happiness such a visit creates. That’s all true, but Jhami Guffey, an owner of the new Squishington’s candy shop in downtown ...
A couple of news and notes from around town:
Given that the weather felt like 40-below zero not long ago, perhaps few people noticed that a new Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop planned for 23rd Street was taking a long time to open.
But I did, because I absolutely still ate ice cream even when it was that cold. (It actually was the best time to order a triple dip — you could eat one while you stored the ...
The highly caffeinated “bros” are coming to Lawrence. Dutch Bros. Coffee has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to build a new drive-thru coffee shop along south Iowa Street.
The shop will be the first in Lawrence for the West Coast company, and it will be taking a spot that once was set aside for an expanding Arkansas chain of coffee shops. Dutch Bros. plans to build its new 950-square foot drive-thru ...
A multimillion-dollar project to rehabilitate an old Iowa Street motel into a detox and substance abuse treatment center is scheduled to begin in April, developers of the project have confirmed.
We reported in September that Lawrence restaurateur David Hawley and Eudora construction company owner Aaron Thakker had reached a deal to purchase the Super 8 motel at 801 Iowa St. and convert it into an extended stay ...
A Kansas City family who just marked its 100th year in the Kansas City market has completed a deal to expand into Lawrence.
The Bob Sight Auto Group on Tuesday took over ownership of both the Honda and Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram dealerships on south Iowa Street. The company bought the two dealerships from Lawrence-based Dale Willey Automotive, which will continue to operate the Chevrolet and GMC dealership ...
